Carnegie and Greenaway: Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner What if the football hadn’t gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn’t want anyone to know. But Standish…
Dr Dog
Babette Cole Meet Doctor Dog, he’s the Gumboyle family’s favourite pet and their very own trusty physician. When Doctor Dog jets off to a medical conference in Brazil the Guimboyles decide they can’t survive without him and so he returns…
Amity and Sorrow
Peggy Riley In the wake of a suspicious fire, Amaranth gathers her children and flees from the fundamentalist cult in which her children were born and raised. Now she is on the run with only her barely aged teenage daughters,…
Belonging
Karen Ann Hopkins Rose became Amish so she could be with Noah, but is this where she really belongs? ‘I left everything I knew behind. but it was worth it. He was worth it’. No one thought an ordinary girl…
Wild Boy
London, 1841 A boy covered in hair, raised as a monster, condemned to life in a travelling freak show. A boy with extraordinary powers of observation and detection. A boy accused of murder; on the run; hungry for the truth.…
Self Published Sunday: Interview with Leyland Perree
We are delighted to welcome Leyland Perree to Self Published Sunday to talk about his children’s book, The Great Reef Race. Leyland Perree is a freelance children’s’ author. His illustrated picture books include Frog on the Log, The Goat that…
Cover Reveal: Strong Enough
I am really looking forward to this debut from self published author Alexis Alexander. We don’t meet people in life on accident, they are meant to cross our path for a reason; Reece Miller is beginning to understand what that…
Walking Disaster
Jamie McGuire How much is too much to love? Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder. In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence.…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards: Oh No George
Chris Haughton George is a dog with all the best intentions. And his owner, Harry, has all the best hopes that George will be a well-behaved dog when he leaves him alone for the day. But when George spies a…
Back to Blackbrick
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald When Cosmo keeps his promise to go to Blackbrick Abbey, he unlocks the gate to the place his granddad once worked and finds himself in the forgotten corners of a distant past, one that his granddad has,…
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